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    WHEAT-GRASS

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    A grass of the genus Agropyronplay

    Synonyms:

    wheat-grass; wheatgrass

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("wheat-grass" is a kind of...):

    grass (narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "wheat-grass"):

    Agropyron cristatum; crested wheat grass; crested wheatgrass; fairway crested wheat grass (Eurasian grass grown in United States great plains area for forage and erosion control)

    Agropyron repens; couch grass; dog grass; quack grass; quackgrass; quick grass; witch grass; witchgrass (European grass spreading rapidly by creeping rhizomes; naturalized in North America as a weed)

    Agropyron subsecundum; bearded wheatgrass (a wheatgrass with straight terminal awns on the flowering glumes)

    Agropyron smithii; bluestem wheatgrass; western wheatgrass (valuable forage grass of western United States)

    Agropyron intermedium; Elymus hispidus; intermediate wheatgrass (Asiatic grass introduced into United States rangelands for pasture and fodder)

    Agropyron pauciflorum; Agropyron trachycaulum; Elymus trachycaulos; slender wheatgrass (North American grass cultivated in western United States as excellent forage crop)

    Holonyms ("wheat-grass" is a member of...):

    Agropyron; genus Agropyron (perennial grasses of temperate and cool regions: wheatgrass; dog grass)

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